“I don’t know how to stop loving you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Make me remember what it feels like to be loved.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'll be whatever you need me to be.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I loved her. Oh God… I loved her. She was everything, ripped me apart and made me whole.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I’d give this girl anything she asked me for. I’d probably beg her to take it.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“She's get lost in my words while I'd get lost in those eyes.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd struggled to supply the needs I didn't have the strength to provide, to give him hope when I had none, to give him joy when I had little to share. All I'd have to give him was my love.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd always been willing. But I always fell short, every good intention I ever had never good enough.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in his bed. A burdened breath escaped his lungs, and he rolled to his side.
So precious and already so damaged.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“My smile was soft as I looked down at the same broken girl who'd captured me, both of us so different yet somehow exactly the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“There are always monsters,” the old man replied. “Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Morrigan's Cross
“Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather.
And it lives.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. I always pose it this way. I say: ‘Lookit. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s worst lover but have everyone think you’re the world’s greatest lover?’ Now, that’s an interesting question.”
― Alice Schroeder, quote from The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
“Lying across his chest was a curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawed off a foot in front of the triggers. It was clear that this had been fired at close range and that he had received the whole charge in the face, blowing his head almost to pieces. The triggers had been wired together, so as to make the simultaneous discharge more destructive.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Valley of Fear
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Joke
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